Jared M. Diamond discusses his new book 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' January 14, 2005

From the Harvard Bookstore site:
"In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared M. Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?"